Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.
Rejoice
Barren
Bible References
Rejoice
Isaiah 54:1
"Shout for joy, O barren one who has not given birth! Give a joyful shout and cry out, you who have not been in labor! For the children of the desolate one are more numerous than the children of the married woman," says the Lord.
Barren
1 Samuel 2:5
Those who are well-fed hire themselves out to earn food, but the hungry no longer lack. Even the barren woman gives birth to seven, but the one with many children withers away.
Psalm 113:9
He makes the barren woman of the family a happy mother of children. Praise the Lord!
Desolate
Ruth 1:11
But Naomi replied, "Go back home, my daughters! There is no reason for you to return to Judah with me! I am no longer capable of giving birth to sons who might become your husbands!
Ruth 4:14
The village women said to Naomi, "May the Lord be praised because he has not left you without a guardian today! May he become famous in Israel!
2 Samuel 13:20
Her brother Absalom said to her, "Was Amnon your brother with you? Now be quiet, my sister. He is your brother. Don't take it so seriously!" Tamar, devastated, lived in the house of her brother Absalom.
Isaiah 49:21
Then you will think to yourself, 'Who bore these children for me? I was bereaved and barren, dismissed and divorced. Who raised these children? Look, I was left all alone; where did these children come from?'"
1 Timothy 5:5
But the widow who is truly in need, and completely on her own, has set her hope on God and continues in her pleas and prayers night and day.